The rush is on to try and complete the pipeline before the “WET” starts. The hydrostatic test crew staying at Mango Farm are regularly working 15 hours and sometimes 17 hours, in two shifts, and they still have a long way to go. The soil has become white “Bulldust” that even their four wheel drive vehicles are losing traction and slipping on. There are Environmentalists employed to rescue and accurately record all creatures that fall into the trench, and even they have been amazed at what they have to extricate from the trench even though the trench is only open for the briefest possible time. I have asked if the wild cattle and pigs have to be rescued alive, but I don’t have an answer. However all snakes including venomous species do have to be removed unharmed! The pipe sections are welded into one and a half kilometre long lengths, and then lowered into the trench, then the trench is filled with soil prior to the hydrostatic testing, after which, the pipe is dried using sixty or more foam “pigs” and brushes forced through the lengths of buried pipeline to remove all moisture and any rust.